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Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber [1] / ˈ l iː b ər /; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer.He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Comics which later became Marvel Comics.
Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman as Timely Comics, [3] and by 1951 had generally become known as Atlas Comics.
Martin Goodman (also Morris Goodman; [1] born Moe Goodman; [2] January 18, 1908 – June 6, 1992 [2] [3]) was an American publisher of pulp magazines, digest sized magazines, paperback books, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, who founded the comics magazine company Timely Comics in 1939.
Marvel Comics films showcased at the 2011 D23 Expo. Marvel Comics is a publisher of American comic books and related media. It counts among its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man, Daredevil, and Deadpool, and such teams as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and the Guardians of ...
Timely Comics was the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics. [1] Founded in 1939, during the era called the Golden Age of Comic Books, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp ...
Marvel Entertainment, LLC (formerly Marvel Entertainment, Inc. and Marvel Enterprises, Inc.) was an American entertainment company founded in June 1998 and based in New York City, formed by the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group and Toy Biz.
Avi Arad (/ ˈ ɑː v i ˈ ɑː r ɑː d /; Hebrew: אבי ארד; born August 1, 1948 [1] [2]) is an Israeli-American studio executive and producer of film, television and animation.He became the CEO of Toy Biz in the 1990s, was the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment and is the founder, former chairman and former CEO of the latter's successor, Marvel Studios. [3]
The movies raised brand awareness of DC Comics and Marvel Comics. As of June 2022, the MCU is the highest-grossing film franchise in history, having collectively grossed over $26 billion in box-office revenue, more than twice that by the second largest franchise, Star Wars. [160]